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APRA flags growing trustee complacency on retirement strategies

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... in 2027. She also noted APRA's focus on balancing its financial safety and stability objectives with competition and efficiency considerations, for which it has nine actions to minimise regulatory burden. "In addition to the reduction of capital requirements ...

China wants to be leader in renewable energy: Gore

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... noted that China has rapidly outpaced its peers in the energy transition, propelled by its advantages in pricing and efficiency in renewable technology production, such as solar panels and electric vehicles (EVs). "We're now seeing EVs begin to gain ...

MLC Expand targets time savings with new AI capabilities

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... "functionality and features to the market at 10% of the rate you do today." "I think AI is improving and driving adviser efficiency, which will create revenue and growth on platforms," Maloney said. "... we're seeing a lot of advisers start to experiment ...

Can IPOs ever recover? Experts aren't sure

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... listings, it's difficult to say. "Generally, competitions can be good; you get new ideas, innovations, and maybe more efficiency in the market," Lyons said. "For most listed fund managers, and we're talking about index inclusion for an IPO, the ...

AZ NGA acquires majority stake in Geographe Financial Group

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... forward growth strategy. "We have ambitious plans to grow and add more planners, and also increase our productivity, efficiency and capacity by leveraging the resources, expertise and scale of AZ NGA," he said. "We have established strong relationships ...

JPMAM launches ETF models with Vanguard

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... towards a holistic wealth management approach, and subsequent increased adoption of models in Australia, improving efficiency gains and empowering advisers to provide more personalised advice and consistent portfolio outcomes, JPMAM said. JPMAM head ...

APRA warns of super fund sustainability challenges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
... performance against a variety of metrics over one, three and five-year periods. The metrics related to operational efficiency, growth and competitive positioning. Going deeper, APRA looked at growth in operating expenses, natural cash flows, member accounts ...

Managed portfolios now the default: AMP

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
... investment environments grow more complex, clients are moving towards to managed portfolios which deliver scale, operational efficiency, and robust governance. AMP chief economist Shane Oliver said: "Managed portfolios are acting as a mirror to broader ...

Feature: Digital advice | Sleeping giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
... hailed file-noting technology as a game changer. For Insignia advisers, this saves 30 minutes per meeting. Another efficiency gain is an in-house build on top of Co-Pilot that auto generates the implementation checklist using the SoA to save 15 minutes ...

Colonial First State partners with MST Financial

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2025
... said: "Our ambitious roadmap is focused on providing advisers with managed account solutions that provide them with efficiency, transparency and enable them to deliver better outcomes for their clients."